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Rh "There is something true in what you say," said the count, with that smile which made him so handsome; "I have descended from a planet called Grief."

"I believe all you tell me without questioning its sense; in proof, you told me to live, and I did live; you told me to hope, and I almost did so. I am almost inclined to ask you, as though you had experienced death, 'Is it painful to die??'"